Tag: soldiers

Not content with illegally entering South Africa, smugglers, undocumented persons and vehicle thieves have apparently added bribery to their list of criminal offences according...

Separatist rebels have killed 15 Cameroonian soldiers and several civilians in two bomb attacks this month, the government said on Monday, marking a new...

Fifteen soldiers were killed and a number of others wounded in an ambush on a military convoy in central Mali on Thursday, the armed...

At least 12 soldiers were killed in an attack in northwestern Burkina Faso on Sunday and seven others are missing, three security sources said. There...

An armed group in northern Burkina Faso killed 30 civilians, soldiers and pro-government militiamen in a series of attacks near the Niger border, the...

Fifteen soldiers were killed as a result of an ambush in southwestern Niger on Saturday, the country’s defence ministry said, blaming the attack on...

Three Ethiopian soldiers were convicted of rape and one of killing a civilian in Ethiopia's Tigray region, government said, the first public statement on...

A number of Sudanese army soldiers were transferred to civilian prosecution, state news agency SUNA reported on Sunday, in the first such investigation of...

One army officer and ten soldiers were killed in Nigeria’s Benue state in what a spokesman said was an unprovoked attack on Thursday. The army...

Three soldiers were killed and seven wounded when two military posts in northern Ivory Coast were attacked early on Monday, five senior military sources...

The Ugandan military on Thursday sentenced seven soldiers to up 90 days in jail after they were convicted of assaulting journalists who were covering...

Over two thousand soldiers will be on South African streets until the end of February helping police and assisting in the ongoing national effort...

Nigerian soldiers shot dead peaceful protesters at a demonstration in Lagos last month, trucking away the bodies, said written witness testimonies submitted to a...

Dozens of soldiers and Somal were killed in two days of fighting between Somali government forces and al Shabaab militants northwest of the capital...

Nearly 100 Senegalese soldiers tested positive for coronavirus after returning home from a deployment in neighbouring Gambia, a military source said. The source said testing...

Four Malian solders were killed and 12 wounded on Thursday after militants ambushed a military anti-poaching patrol in the violence-plagued central region of Mopti,...

Soldiers who ousted Mali’s president and government in a military coup that drew condemnation abroad promised on Wednesday to restore stability and oversee a...

Operation Notlela, the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) deployment in support of the national state of disaster, does not confine soldiers to enforcing lockdown...

The lid the national defence force has put on making public the number of soldiers testing positive for coronavirus has not reached Limpopo. The provincial...

Authorities in Cameroon arrested three soldiers for their role in an alleged deadly attack on civilians in a village near where the military is...

More than 200 Malian troops reached the northern city Kidal on Thursday, the army said, the military’s first permanent deployment there since being chased...

Suspected Islamist militants killed 25 soldiers and wounded six in an attack on an army post in west Niger near the Mali border, government...

Gunmen killed 24 soldiers in an attack on an army unit in Burkina Faso, the deadliest yet in the West African nation’s fight against...

The Burkina Faso military launched an investigation after a rights group accused the army of carrying out executions during a recent operation in which...

Unidentified attackers torched three passenger vehicles in southern Rwanda on Saturday, killing two and injuring eight, the Ministry of Defence said, adding the military...

Nine Somali soldiers including two generals were killed by a blast just outside Mogadishu, militants and an army official said. Islamist group...

Thousands of child soldiers dragged into South Sudan's civil war are unlikely to be freed soon because aid agencies lack funds to...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said soldiers who marched on his palace last week had "nefarious aims" to stop reforms and defended...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said soldiers who marched to his palace last week had "nefarious aims" and wanted to abort the...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed reached an agreement with several hundred soldiers who marched on his office to demand pay rises and...

In what appears to be yet another lengthy legal tussle, the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) and the Department of Defence...

A South Sudanese military court sentenced 10 soldiers to prison for the rape of foreign aid workers and the murder of a...

Soldiers involved in assaulting Ugandan lawmakers and civilians over their alleged role in the stoning of a presidential convoy were arrested, the...

Five Kenyan soldiers were killed and 10 wounded when their vehicle ran over a homemade bomb in northern Kenya, the military said....

Nigerian troops staging a protest at the airport in Maiduguri shot into the air for around four hours, soldiers and local people...

Cameroon arrested four soldiers suspected of shooting dead two women and two children in the country's far north where its army is...

A Democratic Alliance (DA) march on Nyanga police station this week was yet another call for soldiers to be deployed in the...

About 20 Nigerian soldiers are missing after a clash with Boko Haram militants in the north-east, security sources said, denying reports some...

A suicide car bomb explosion at a military base in Somalia injured seven soldiers a military official said with Islamist group al...

Islamist militant group al Shabaab killed nine Kenyan soldiers in Somalia, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said. The president's office offered no other details...

Mali's government is investigating accusations by an opposition party that the army kidnapped and executed seven civilians. The opposition SADI party accused the...

A Malian militant group with links to al Qaeda claimed responsibility for an attack that killed two French soldiers last week. The soldiers...

Western Cape premier Helen Zille still wants soldiers on hand to help police crack down on gang and drug related crime in...

Two French soldiers were killed after their armoured vehicle was hit by an explosive device in Mali, the French president's office said. France...

Congolese refugees in Rwanda said soldiers shot at them and wounded at least two people as refugees tried leave their camp in...

Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said his people would not be frightened by "barbaric attacks" after unidentified gunmen killed at least 14...

Algeria's army killed eight armed men in Khenchela province, 700 km east of Algiers, the Defence Ministry said. The gunmen, described as...

Soldiers are going to be deployed within weeks in beleaguered Cape Town where Day Zero for water supply looms ever larger on...

At least a dozen soldiers were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile eastern borderlands where the army is battling Ugandan Islamist...

French magistrates dismissed a case brought against a group of French soldiers accused of sexually abusing children while deployed in the Central...